Bluewater Arts

Studio #201    www.thebluewatergallery.com

I am a Fiber Artist.

I create using two very different types of Fiber.

I am a silk painter.

     My canvas is silk fabric. From these lusciously colored silk fabrics, I then design and craft adornments for both body and abode.

www.fiberlocity.com

     I begin with raw fibers of cotton, kozo, gampi or abaca. I process the pulp using traditional Asian or European methods to create either sheets of paper for castings, or use the pulp to build vessels in a variety of shapes and dimensions that are expressive.  The castings and vessels are then decorated when appropriate to the subject matter.  Others are left unadorned by color to celebrate their natural beauty.

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     Music informs my every artistic decision.  I am a musician who began my adventures in fiber with two internationally known fiber artists who by an unexplained coincidence share the same last name.  I was privileged to study papermaking with the wonderfully gifted handmade paper artist and teacher, Gisela Magdelena Moyer.  It was also my pleasure to learn to put color to silk with the equally talented Susan Louise Moyer, an extraordinary silk painter and educator.  Both these artists are extremely accomplished artists.  Each accepted my lack of formal art education and set me free with the technical insights to develop my own style in two different, yet similar fiber disciplines that I dearly love.

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     My fiberart studio is in The Arts Building in Milwaukee Wisconsin.  I share this building with nearly 20 amazing artists who daily teach me and lift my creative spirit.  I feel so fortunate and grateful to know these creative souls.

     I am inspired by elements of nature.  I find excitement in repetition of forms and the rhythm that can miraculously unfold in texture – texture that can be so beautifully created with fiber. Fiber is both fluid and rigid.  It accepts shaping and coloring in unexpected ways that can both confound and delight.

     I am thrilled and energized by the discovery of new techniques through my experimentation, informed by my experience and willingness to let go.

     The work reveals itself when I as the artist can stand back and allow events to unfold.  I am always awed by how these humble, yet exalted materials will graciously accept what I am attempting to do. I am humbled daily to discover the materials are inevitably in control.  They shall allow what they shall allow.